docbook-apps

Hi

Complete newbie to the list and Docbook in general, so please excuse total
basic level of understanding.

I've been spending a lot of time getting to know the CMS Drupal
(drupal.org), and one module it offers is exporting collaborative book
writing to Docbook format (http://drupal.org/node/38757).

So the thrust of my question, with a view to learning more about Docbook,
is basically to ask if this sounds like a useful tool with any kind of
practical application? The collaborative editing is useful, but I'm not
sure what I could then do with it once it is in Docbook format, so I was
wondering if any one had any suggestions to help build a context.

Many thanks, Neil.

I've used Drupal before. I must say that it was horrible in terms of
outputting well formed pages due to its snippets feature. It was also
not very easy to make it send the right mime type for
application/xhtml+xml pages. The DocBook output feature on their main
website didn't work properly either.

I hope things are better now.

Maybe one day we will be able to trick NDW into packaging his blog
code for us :-]

On 11/2/06, neil.mcevoy@ondemand-network.com
<neil.mcevoy@ondemand-network.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Complete newbie to the list and Docbook in general, so please excuse total
> basic level of understanding.
>
> I've been spending a lot of time getting to know the CMS Drupal
> (drupal.org), and one module it offers is exporting collaborative book
> writing to Docbook format (http://drupal.org/node/38757).
>
> So the thrust of my question, with a view to learning more about Docbook,
> is basically to ask if this sounds like a useful tool with any kind of
> practical application? The collaborative editing is useful, but I'm not
> sure what I could then do with it once it is in Docbook format, so I was
> wondering if any one had any suggestions to help build a context.
>
> Many thanks, Neil.
>
>
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Ok, so assuming Drupal wasn't a bag of bolts ;-), is the scenario itself
of any practical application? For example I don't know if Docbook is
really only for desktop editing, serviced by a number of suitable client
apps, or is the web/collaborative approach popular too?

Again excuse my ignorance of the basics...

Thanks, neil.


> I've used Drupal before. I must say that it was horrible in terms of
> outputting well formed pages due to its snippets feature. It was also
> not very easy to make it send the right mime type for
> application/xhtml+xml pages. The DocBook output feature on their main
website didn't work properly either.

I think someone has written wiki software that uses DocBook. I imagine
that the authors of various XML editors would like you to look at
their collaboration features. You could check on the current status of
DocBook support in the Apache Lenya CMS. I think one of the best
possible ways to collaborate with DocBook (and indeed any writing
activity where the authors are both trusted and computer literate) is
to use a Subversion repository.

On 11/2/06, neil.mcevoy@ondemand-network.com
<neil.mcevoy@ondemand-network.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, so assuming Drupal wasn't a bag of bolts ;-), is the scenario itself
> of any practical application? For example I don't know if Docbook is
> really only for desktop editing, serviced by a number of suitable client
> apps, or is the web/collaborative approach popular too?
>
> Again excuse my ignorance of the basics...
>
> Thanks, neil.
>
>
> > I've used Drupal before. I must say that it was horrible in terms of
> > outputting well formed pages due to its snippets feature. It was also
> > not very easy to make it send the right mime type for
> > application/xhtml+xml pages. The DocBook output feature on their main
> website didn't work properly either.
>
>
>


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"and indeed any "

->

"and in any text based"

On 11/2/06, Chris Chiasson <chris@chiasson.name> wrote:
> I think someone has written wiki software that uses DocBook. I imagine
> that the authors of various XML editors would like you to look at
> their collaboration features. You could check on the current status of
> DocBook support in the Apache Lenya CMS. I think one of the best
> possible ways to collaborate with DocBook (and indeed any writing
> activity where the authors are both trusted and computer literate) is
> to use a Subversion repository.
<snip/>

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